Author's Note:

I know I've mentioned it before, but I've always loved the idea of Ginny having this special relationship with each one of her brothers, Bill especially. I like the use of nicknames for her brothers to use and I already mentioned Charlie calling her Jitterbug, but all of her brothers will have their own names for her.

DISCLAIMER: I do not own the letter that belongs to the lovely JKR.

And I know, I know, 61 chapters in and FINALLY!

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CHAPTER SIXTY-ONE:

The One With the Letter

Tonks decided to spend some time at Sirius' house that summer again. She played with Harry, taught him some new pranks, and raced him through the treehouse obstacle course. She also continued running every day in preparation for her training in August through September. She was determined to be in top physical form when she got to the boot camp.

But the part that she enjoyed the most about the summer, was doing her best to make Remus uncomfortable.

The second week she had caught him in the sunroom writing on the blackboard. She had stepped up behind him, sitting on his desk.

"Keeping busy, Professor Lupin?"

He had jolted and merely turned to offer her a small smile. "Nymphadora, I didn't know that you were here."

He was the only person who ever called her Nymphadora outside of her mother and she found that when he said it, she didn't mind.

"I thought I'd come by and see if Harry was interested in cooling off with a good old fashioned water balloon fight. Want to join us?"

Remus shook his head. "I have things to do and can't be bothered by childish games at the moment."

"That's a shame," Tonks said, hopping off the desk and smirking at him. "I thought maybe you'd enjoy watching me get a little wet."

"What?" Remus said, his eyes wide. She hadn't said those words, had she?

She smiled, a knowing smirk on her lips. "I said, I thought you'd enjoy getting wet, you know, cooling off for a bit?"

Remus swallowed slowly. Her eyes were twinkling at him in mischief and his heart was pounding a little too erratically in his chest, he thought. "I'm busy."

Tonks simply shrugged. "Well, we'll be out back if you want to join us."

He tried not to look out the window, he really did, but when she stood there in tiny shorts and a blue bikini top, he swallowed slowly. And when that first water balloon crashed into her, he closed his eyes in his attempt to be indifferent.

He would not let her get to him.

Sirius came home a little while later, laughing when a water balloon struck him right in the middle of his Ramones tee shirt and Harry giggled madly.

"Hey!" he exclaimed, tugging his wet shirt off and running after his ten-year-old-son. He took a balloon from Tonks and crushed it over Harry's head as Harry laughed.

Tonks grinned. "We thought we'd cool off a bit — this heat wave is killing me," she told him, sitting in the grass and stretching her long legs out in front of her.

Sirius smiled. "Sounds like a plan to me. It's supposed to be a scorcher today and it's barely even noon. Where's Remus?"

"Hiding inside."

"Hiding?" Sirius asked, his eyebrow rising.

Tonks simply smirked at him. "I invited him out, but he said that he was too busy for childish games."

Sirius frowned. "I'll drag him out."

Tonks grinned as she watched her cousin head into the house and Harry crushed a balloon over her head, the cold water making her gasp. "All right, get over here, Potter!" she yelled as she chased him, both of them laughing.

Sirius stepped into the sunroom where Remus was sitting at the desk, his eyes on the open book in front of him. The tension in his shoulders only told Sirius what he already knew. Remus was taking in nothing of the book in front of him.

"Why are you being a party pooper? Come on outside and play with us."

"I have things to do, Sirius," Remus said stubbornly.

Sirius plopped himself into Harry's desk chair. "What things? Harry will be getting his Hogwarts letter any day now. We both decided that by his birthday you would be done being his professor. He's ready to learn magic now, Moony. What can you possibly be doing in here?"

"I still have… things… we're going to cover Grindelwald next and…"

"Mooonnnnnyyyy," Sirius whined. "Come outside and play!"

Remus grinned at him. The whiny sound of his friend's voice reminding him of when they were at Hogwarts together. "Sirius, I… I just can't right now."

"Look, you can deny it all you want, I don't care — but I know that you are interested in that beautiful young woman out there. Now, maybe you are too cowardly to come outside and act like a human being because she's wearing a tiny little bikini and you are determined to deny that you have any feelings for her, but if you want to hang out in here like the coward that you are acting like, than you do that. I'm going to go outside and do something wild called fun. You should try it sometime, Professor."

Remus opened his mouth to protest this, but the look in his friend's eyes only made him sigh. "She's eighteen, Sirius; what I feel for her is… wrong."

Sirius smiled at him. "Come on; you used to be friends with her. Don't you miss her?"

"I am her friend."

"Her friend would not be stubbornly hiding out in here. Her friend would come outside and play with his friend and son."

Remus sighed. "All right, I'll come out. But we're not talking about this again. Nymphadora is… we're just friends."

Sirius simply smirked at his friend. "I'm not saying anything different, mate. And for the record — your feelings aren't wrong."

Remus' opened his mouth to protest this, but Sirius was already marching out of the sunroom and into the garden.

Remus waited almost five minutes, having a silent argument with himself, but in the end, the lure of the laughter from the garden drew him out. It didn't take long before he was drenched in water as Harry chased him gleefully.

When he removed his shirt, Tonks had simply swallowed at the sight of those lean muscles. It had been years since she'd seen him without his shirt on. The Marauder tattoo and those mysterious faded white scars, a soft dusting of golden brown hair across his chest barely visible until the sun hit it… She wanted to touch him and she shoved her hands into her pockets to stop herself from doing so.

He was truly beautiful.

Sirius conjured more water balloons and they started another fight, Tonks and Harry versus Sirius and Remus. Sirius was tickling Harry who was laughing in his attempt to crush his balloon against his godfather. Tonks, never one to pass on the opportunity, threw one at Remus which bounced off of his chest. He dove to catch it at the same time that she did and they collided, laughing as she landed on top of him. She straddled him, sitting on his stomach and carefully crushed the balloon onto his chest with glee.

Remus grinned and threw her off of him, summoning a balloon and smashing it down on her. Her nipples poked through the bikini top and he swallowed slowly, crashing a second balloon over her as he tried to convince himself why it wasn't a good reason to sit up and take one of those tantalizing peaks into his mouth. He licked his lips at the thought and hoped to Merlin the tent he was sporting wasn't visible right now.

Tonks was laughing, jumping to her feet and running away. She rescued Harry from Sirius and the two of them formed a plan to crush the remainder of the balloons on the opposing team. Harry suggested that they use the treehouse and Tonks nodded in agreement. She carefully hid balloons up on the top of the pirate ship with her wand while Harry distracted his fathers and then she moved in as Harry hurried into the treehouse.

Tonks just managed to escape from Sirius' grasp when the entire basket of balloons fell over, drenching Sirius and Remus in water as Harry laughed loudly from atop the pirate ship.

"We win!" Tonks exclaimed, high-fiving Harry.

Remus spluttered. "Nice move, little Prongs."

Sirius nodded, pushing his drenched hair away from his face. "Really nice move. All right, champions, let's have an ice cream break."

After ice cream, Tonks headed home and Harry headed over to the Weasleys for a sleepover. Sirius poured two glasses of Firewhiskey and handed one to his friend.

"All right, we're alone. Talk."

Remus accepted the glass, but only stared at his friend his eyebrow rose in question. "About?"

Sirius rolled his eyes. "You admitted that you find my cousin attractive, so talk. Is it just the age difference thing that's bugging you because I repeat: What you are feeling for her is not wrong. She's eighteen. She's finished school. She's in Auror training."

Remus sighed and dragged his fingers through his hair. "It's a big part of it. She is still a child, Sirius."

Sirius took a sip of his whisky, eyes on Remus for a moment. "She's an Auror in training, Remus. Definitely not a child anymore, but a grown woman. She's been legally an adult witch for over a year now." Sirius said, smiling at his friend. "How long have you been feeling like this? I suspected something last summer, but… has it been longer?"

Remus hesitated. Telling Sirius this was definitely not something he wanted to admit, but as his friend's grey eyes bored into him, he shifted uncomfortably in his seat. Sirius Black always could see right through him and he found it absolutely infuriating while being grateful to his friend at the same time. He tensed slightly as he spoke.

"The Christmas before, when she was… sixteen — I was dealing with my hormonal surge and I think it might have increased my attraction at the time. I'm so ashamed, Padfoot. Sixteen!"

Sirius chuckled. The back of Remus' neck was flushed red and he could see that his friend was beating himself up over it. "There's nothing wrong with what you're feeling, Moony. I want you to stop beating yourself up about it. She's young, yes, but she's a grown woman. She's the same age that James and Lily were when they got married. Lily was only a year older when she was pregnant with Harry."

"That's not…" he shook his head and took a drink of the whiskey. That couldn't be accurate, he thought.

Sirius nodded, reaching out and touching his friend's arm. "I don't care what you do. I don't care if you ignore this feeling and just stay friends with her. I don't care if you decide to admit your feelings and you two shag like bloody rabbits. I don't want to see either one of you get hurt, but you are both adults. Both of you, Moony. If you are hesitant to do anything about this chemistry between the two of you because of the age difference, that's fine, I accept that as a reason to be hesitant even if I don't agree with it. But, if you are holding back because you're a werewolf, I will punch you in the fucking face."

"Padfoot…" Remus began.

"No," Sirius said, sternly, staring at his friend, his grey eyes hard as steel. "You are the most amazing man that I have ever known. You've been a werewolf almost your entire life and you have this insane notion that it makes you a terrible person; that it changes you in some way. That you're damned. It doesn't. You're not. You are the kindest, smartest, and most noble person that I have ever met. You would give someone the shirt off of your back if they needed it, but you consider yourself to be a monster and no matter how many times I tell you differently or how many times Harry looks at you with love and awe, you don't see it. If after over twenty years you still don't believe me, nothing I say now is going to change that. You're one stubborn son of a bitch, Moony. Immovable in every way when it comes to butting heads and to ignoring your friends when they try to tell you how great you are."

"I met with Adrian Roberts," he blurted out.

Sirius stared at him for a long moment. Remus thought that he wasn't going to respond but then his eyes narrowed slightly.

"Sirius?"

"The Alpha wolf of that pack you lived with during your missions with the Order?" he said, carefully, his fingers gripping his glass of whiskey tightly.

Remus nodded.

"Why? I didn't even… do you still talk to them?" he asked, completely taken aback by the change in the conversation.

Adrian Roberts… he hadn't heard that name in over a decade and now… it scared him a bit to think of Remus speaking to him after all of these years.

Remus shook his head. He knew that Sirius was shocked by that and he was still pretty surprised in it himself for initiating contact in the first place. Talking to Adrian had made him feel better, but also made him more confused so he wasn't sure if it had been a good idea in the long run. He wasn't ready to admit that Tonks could be his mate and he definitely had no plans of telling Sirius that information.

"I haven't, not since the war ended, but… my furry little problem has been off lately and he… he was the only person that I could think of to help me so, I sent him an owl and I met with him. It was… I forgot how nice it is to talk to another wolf, Sirius. Sometimes I let myself think that I'm alone in this and I'm not, I just choose to be."

Sirius stared at him, drinking from his glass. He wasn't alone, he thought stubbornly. Sirius was always here for him and he wished his friend could see that. But he wasn't a wolf, his nagging conscious insisted.

He sighed. "And?"

"Don't look at me like that," Remus said, eyeing his friend carefully. He knew exactly what was going through Sirius' mind. "I'm not going to head out and move in with them. I'm not interested in being with the pack, Sirius. I like taking the potion, I like being in control, but sometimes… lately, I've been losing control of myself because of… her."

Sirius' eyebrow rose now. "What do you mean?"

"It's not just the age difference, Sirius, and it's not just the werewolf thing — though both are very strong factors in the why I am not going to let something happen between Nymphadora and I — but I could hurt her, Sirius. She doesn't even know that I'm a werewolf and if I were to hurt her… if she were to find out… the way she would look at me… it's the last thing that I would ever want. But I could hurt her in more ways than one and I don't want that." He drank slowly before he continued. "There's something else that we talked about and it made me think of things differently and… she deserves someone amazing in her life and I'm not that person. I don't want to talk about this again. I've made up my mind. Like you said, I'm immovable when I want to be." He finished his whiskey and stood up. "I'll see you on Monday, Sirius."

Sirius watched his friend head into the house to Floo home and he sighed. Remus Lupin really was a stubborn son of a bitch and he hoped for his sake that he came to his senses. He had never known anyone who deserved to be happy as much as his best mate.

~ ASC ~

When Harry got to The Burrow, he was surprised to find it in such a flurry of excitement. Bill had arrived home for the first time since Christmas and Ginny's eyes were wide as her fingers moved over the new tattoo on his arm. It was a circular sigil that Bill told her was the symbol for curse breaking. It was on his left inner forearm and about the size of an apple and he was quite proud of it.

Mrs Weasley was merely pursing her lips as she looked at it. "Bill, why did you mark up your beautiful skin like that?"

Bill rolled his eyes, winking at his sister. "Mum, I wanted it. I think it looks wicked cool."

Ginny nodded eagerly. "Its brilliant, Mum!"

"And that earring," Mrs Weasley said, her eyes on her son's left ear where he wore a dragon fang through the bottom of his lobe. "And your hair is really getting rather long, dear. You really should let me trim it up before you go back."

"Uncle Sirius has lots of tattoos," Harry told her as he munched on the fruit platter that was on the picnic table. "And earrings. Bill looks cool like he does."

"Hmm," was Mrs Weasley's response to that.

"Thanks, Harry," Bill said, grinning widely. "I always thought that Sirius Black looked the epitome of cool so, I'll definitely take that compliment."

"Well, I mean, you can always take the earring out, dear," Mrs Weasley said, carefully.

"Molly, he's a grown man, leave him alone," Mr Weasley said, smacking his son on the back. "And we're glad to have you back home, son."

"Thanks, Dad," Bill said as Ginny wrapped her arms around his neck and cuddled into him. "Ginny, I haven't been gone that long. You saw me at Christmas," he said, chuckling as he wrapped his arms around his cuddling sister.

"It was forever ago!" she insisted, hugging him tightly.

Bill grinned and kissed her forehead. "I missed you too, Firecracker."

She beamed at him as Charlie reached over his brother for the bowl of crisps. "Where are you going next? I mean, you're officially working for Gringotts now, right?"

Bill nodded, resting his head on the top of his sister's. "Yeah, I'm in the international branch which is why I stayed the extra few months working with the Mayan curses. But I think they're transferring me to Egypt, which is cool."

"Egypt?" Mr Weasley said, his eyes wide. "That's where some of the most difficult curses are."

"The most difficult supposedly, but according to Santiago I have the skills and they think I will be a huge asset to the Egyptian team. I'll be posted there for at least the next three years. I start the first of August."

Ginny pouted, pulling back to look at her brother. "You'll miss my birthday!"

Bill kissed her cheeks. "I'll make it up to you, Firecracker." He smiled at his brother, lowering his voice so that his parents wouldn't hear him. "And you, have you told them about the you-know-what yet?"

Charlie shook his head. "Not yet."

"You keep going off far away, Bill," Mrs Weasley said sadly. "Though at least this time you'll be on the right side of the ocean. Charlie doesn't want to hurry off and go off to another country like you do. He's going to apply to the Ministry; see if he can work in the magical creatures office."

Charlie hesitated. "Actually, Mum, I got a job offer last week and it's not exactly from the Ministry."

"What?" Mrs Weasley exclaimed, her eyes wide. "Charlie, that's wonderful! Why didn't you tell us?"

He smiled, scratching the stubble on his chin. "It's not exactly the safe job at the Ministry that you were hoping for, Mum."

Mr Weasley sighed, taking off his glasses. "I always knew that it would be dragons."

Charlie grinned, his eyes twinkling. "Dad, how did you —?"

Mr Weasley smiled. "Not a safe job at the Ministry, with you it could be nothing else. You've always been fascinated by dragons even when you were a toddler. The more dangerous the creature, the more you were fascinated by it."

Charlie nodded, grinning widely. "Yeah, I have been. Professor Kettleburn reached out to a friend of his in Romania and they offered me a job out there. I'm leaving in August to work on the dragon reserve and train with the dragon tamers. I just have to write my CRAWLS first. You know, the Creature Research and Welfare License Standards. Then I'm good to go."

Mrs Weasley's eyes widened in horror. "Dragons! Charlie, they're so…" she looked at the excitement in her son's eyes. "It's your dream job."

"I know, Mum," he said, standing up to kiss her cheek. "I'll send money home."

"You most certainly will not!" Mrs Weasley insisted, her face flushing.

Bill rolled his eyes. "I saw you put the money I sent home back into my own bank vault, by the way. Mum, that money is for you and Dad; to help send the rest of the kids off to Hogwarts."

Mr Weasley shook his head, pride in his eyes. "We appreciate it, but you boys are grown now and have your own lives to live. That money is rightfully earned by you. You save it for when you need it. To start your own lives."

Ron grabbed a handful of crisps and grinned at Harry. "Can you imagine working with dragons?"

Harry shook his head. "It sounds wicked. When I was at the reserve in Italy it was brilliant!"

"And scary," Ron added, eyes wide. "Charlie, you have to send pictures home of the dragons."

Charlie ruffled his little brother's hair. "Definitely! The part of the camp that I will be training with to start is a breeding ground, so it will be mostly nesting mothers. Kettleburn says that they're the most dangerous, but also the best kind of dragons to work with."

"Wow," Ron said, his eyes wide.

"Ron, why don't you, Harry, and Ginny go and play? I'll call you when dinner's ready," Mrs Weasley suggested.

Ginny shook her head, resting her head over Bill's heart. "I'm staying right here with Bill."

Bill grinned and wrapped his arms around her. "I'll get rid of her, Mum. How about we toss you in the pond?"

"No! Don't throw me in!" But she was laughing as he carried her off.

Harry and Ron hurried after them, teasing Ginny as she tried to escape.

Charlie grinned and turned to his parents. "So, what are we having for dinner, Mum, I'm starving."

~ ASC ~

They were eating breakfast the end of the second week of July when the owl flew through the open kitchen window and dropped the letter in front of Harry. The Hogwarts crest on the inside of the envelope had his eyes widening.

Mr H. Potter

Number 17 Willoughby Lane

Black Cottage

Sidmouth, Devon

"Uncle Padfoot!"

Sirius grinned at him. The look of confusion to excitement in less than two seconds had been entirely worth it, he thought. "Aren't you going to open it, Prongslet?"

Harry jumped to his feet, practically bouncing as he carefully opened the letter and removed the cream coloured parchment.

HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY

Headmaster: Albus Dumbledore (Order of Merlin, First Class, Grand Sorc., Chf. Warlock, Supreme Mugwump, International Confed. of Wizards)

Dear Mr. Potter,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been accepted at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Please find enclosed a list of all necessary books and equipment.

Term begins on 1 September. We await your owl by no later than 31 July.

Yours Sincerely,

Minerva McGonagall
Deputy Headmistress

He slipped the paper behind and began to read the second sheet:

HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY

Uniform
First year students require:
1. Three sets of plain work robes (black).
2. One plain pointed hat (black) for day wear.
3. One pair of protective gloves (dragon hide or similar).
4. One winter cloak (black, silver fastenings).
Please note that all pupils' clothes should carry name tags.

Set Books
All students should have a copy of each of the following:
The Standard Book of Spells Grade One by Miranda Goshawk
A History of Magic by Bathilda Bagshot
Magical Theory by Adalbert Waffling
A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration by Emeric Switch
One Thousand Magical Herbs and Fungi by Phyllida Spore
Magical Drafts and Potions by Arsenius Jigger
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by Newt Scamander
The Dark Forces: A Guide to Self-Protection by Quentin Trimble

Other Equipment
1 wand
1 cauldron (pewter standard, size 2)
1 set glass or crystal phials
1 telescope
1 set brass scales

Students may also bring an owl OR a cat OR a toad.

PARENTS ARE REMINDED THAT FIRST YEAR STUDENTS ARE NOT ALLOWED THEIR OWN BROOMSTICKS

"IT CAME! IT CAME!" Harry exclaimed, jumping up and down, the letter held tightly in his hands.

Sirius stood up, lifting Harry up onto the kitchen counter, placing his hands on either side of the table next to him and kissed his son's forehead. "I told you it would. The moment you were born, your name appeared on the Hogwarts registry for September of 1991."

Harry looked down at the letter again, grinning widely. "Can I see if Ron and Neville got a letter?"

Before Sirius could answer, the Weasley owl, Errol, crash landed straight into the kitchen sink.

Sirius smirked. "I think Ron got his letter."

He took the letter from Errol, passing it off to Harry who eagerly tore it open.

DID YOU GET IT?

Harry laughed as he showed the letter to Sirius. The Floo flashed open and Neville toppled out, catching himself last minute before he crashed head first into the ground. He had his letter crumpled in his hands as he ran into the kitchen, beaming.

"IT CAME!"

Sirius laughed and scooped Neville up into his arms, sitting him up on the counter next to Harry. "I told you boys your letters would come."

Neville grinned widely. "We're going to Hogwarts, Harry!"

Sirius ruffled both of their heads, grinning at them. "Well, I think this calls for a celebration."

Neville hopped off the counter, smiling widely. "I told Gran that I was only coming over for a minute." He hugged Sirius tightly. "I'm really gonna be a wizard, Sirius!"

Sirius hugged him back and kissed the top of his head. "I told you so. Son of Frank and Alice, you're going to be a great wizard and don't let anyone tell you different, Nev."

Neville beamed at him and hugged him tightly again. "Gran told me to come straight back so I can't celebrate with you, but thanks, Sirius. Bye Harry!"

He scurried back off to use the Floo and disappeared as Sirius grinned after him. "His grandmother is too hard on him." He grinned back at Harry, cupping his cheeks in his hands and kissing his forehead, then his nose, then his cheeks, then his chin as Harry laughed and pushed him away. "My baby boy is going to Hogwarts!"

Harry rolled his eyes, but grinned widely. "We have to owl back straight away!"

Sirius grinned and moved to the desk drawer in the living room to pull out parchment. "Write Ron back first and see if he wants to come out with us for the day to celebrate. If the answer is yes; tell him to Floo straight over. Auntie Minnie already knows you're going to school."

He passed Harry the parchment and watched as he eagerly wrote Ron back. Sirius sent a quick letter off to McGonagall telling her that of course Harry would be there on the first of September.

He sent a Patronus to Remus telling him to come over for a celebratory dinner that night because their boy was going off to Hogwarts in less than two months. Harry sent his answer back with Errol and then jumped up to hug Sirius.

"I'm really going!"

Sirius kissed his forehead again and hugged him tight. "You're really going and I'm so proud of you." He kissed him again, covering his cheeks in kisses until Harry pushed him away laughing and groaning and then he grinned. "Uncle Moony will come over for dinner and we'll celebrate, but today, it's just you, me, and Ron, deal?"

"Deal!"

Twenty minutes later, Ron was standing in the living room, his freckled face beaming in excitement. "We finally got our letters!"

Harry high-fived Ron. "Uncle Sirius says that he's taking us out to celebrate."

Ron perked up and grinned at Sirius. "Where we going?"

Sirius draped his arm around both boys' shoulders. "That boys, is a surprise. Harry, let Marauder outside before we go."

The surprise turned out to be the Muggle amusement park called Alton Towers. Sirius and Remus led them on rollercoaster after rollercoaster and they loaded up on popcorn, candied nuts, and fizzy drinks before riding everything again. The four of them had the time of their lives and Ron grinned widely at them when they dropped him off at The Burrow on the way home.

"Thanks for a great day, Sirius. Thank you, Rems!"

"Of course, you boys deserve it! Hogwarts acceptance is a big deal," Sirius said with a grin.

They waved goodbye to Ron and headed back to the house for dinner. Remus congratulated Harry eagerly again and hugged him once they were inside. They ate dinner while Remus and Sirius spent hours telling Harry all about Hogwarts.

By the time Harry went to bed that night, his head was full of the idea of going away to the school and finally learning some magic.

He couldn't wait.

End Author's Notes:

Thanks to Clupeidae and rachel | malenkayacherepakha for helping me word this one: CRAWLS = Creature Research And Welfare Licence Standards.

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